Patents Examined by Lucy Chien
  • Patent number: 9952462
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a support layer defining a microcavity above the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed in the microcavity; a planarization layer disposed on the support layer; and a blue-light transmission layer disposed between the support layer and the planarization layer. The display device has improved light extraction efficiency and process efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seontae Yoon, Junghyun Kwon, Minki Nam, Haeil Park, Kwangkeun Lee, Junhan Lee
  • Patent number: 9939691
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a gate line formed on the first substrate; an insulating layer formed on the gate line; and a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode that are formed on the insulating layer. Each of the first subpixel electrode and the second, subpixel electrode includes a first subregion and a second subregion. At least one of the first subregion and the second subregion includes a vertical stem, a horizontal stem extending from a middle of the vertical stem, and a plurality of minute branches laterally extending in a diagonal direction from the horizontal stem. The plurality of minute branches laterally extending from the horizontal stem are alternately branched with reference to the horizontal stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol Shin, Hak Sun Chang, Ka Eun Kim, Se Hyun Lee, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 9933665
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that includes first and second substrates; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; first and second bumps on the first substrate; and at least one first protrusion facing the first bump, and at least one second protrusion facing the second bump, the first and second protrusions being on the second substrate, wherein the first protrusion faces one side of the first bump, and the second protrusion faces the other side of the second bump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saet Byeol Jeon, Jong Wook Jung
  • Patent number: 9927096
    Abstract: A display assembly and display device using the same is disclosed. The display assembly includes a light source for outputting blue light; a quantum dot converter for converting the blue light output from the light source to output at least one of red light and green light; a light transmitter for transmitting the blue light output from the light source by scattering all or part of the blue light; and a substrate on which the quantum converter and the light transmitter are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kye Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9915844
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a thin-film transistor (“TFT”) on the first substrate and including a semiconductor layer and a gate, source and drain electrodes; an organic layer on the TFT and defining a contact hole therein which exposes a portion of the drain electrode; a conductive layer on the organic layer and contacting the exposed portion of the drain electrode at the contact hole; a common electrode which is on the organic layer and isolated from the conductive layer; a passivation layer on the conductive layer and the common electrode and defining an opening therein which exposes a portion of the conductive layer; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and the conductive layer and contacting the exposed portion of the conductive layer at the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ock Soo Son, Dong Wook Kim, Jean Ho Song, Eun Je Jang, Do Hyun Jung
  • Patent number: 9915836
    Abstract: An LCD including first to third pixel areas, each including first and second subpixel areas, the LCD including first and second substrates, first to third color filters on the first or second substrate, the first color filter in the first subpixel area of the first pixel area, the second color filter in the first subpixel area of the second pixel area, and the third color filter in the first subpixel area of the third pixel area, a white filter on the first or second substrate, the first color and white filter in the second subpixel area of the first pixel area, the second color and white filter in the second subpixel area of the second pixel area, and the third color and white filter in the second subpixel area of the third pixel area, the white filter surrounds the first, second and third color filters in the second subpixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yun Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9904080
    Abstract: There is such an issue with the well-known optical element that it is difficult to achieve a high transmittance since the transmittance is determined according to the pattern size of the light transmission regions, so that the luminance of the display device to which such optical element is mounted is deteriorated. Provided is an optical element which employs a structure in which the shape of a conductive pattern where electrophoretic particles cohere in a wide viewing field mode is formed in a comb-like shape and plural stages and plural rows of light transmission regions are disposed in the spaces between the comb teeth. This makes it possible to exclude the electrophoretic particles from the regions other than the comb-like electrode for allowing the light to transmit that part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunihiro Shiota
  • Patent number: 9904004
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of light source packages each having a light-emitting portion for emitting light, a light guide plate which light emitted from the light source packages enters through the incidence surface, having a height and a width, and from which the light exits through the exit surface, and a liquid crystal display panel for controlling, for each pixel, the orientation of a liquid crystal material to control the transmission of the light exiting through the exit surface. Each light source package has two opposing long sides and two opposing short sides when viewed from the direction of the light emitted by the light-emitting portion. The plurality of light source packages are arranged long side to long side in the direction along the width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Norihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9904096
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a dual-vision crystal display device can increase the viewing angle of the dual-vision crystal display device and reduce the thickness and cost of the dual-vision crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengjie Wang, Yuqiong Chen
  • Patent number: 9904114
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel having at least one pixel area is provided. The LCD panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and a liquid crystal layer. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are disposed in the pixel area. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer disposed adjacent to the first electrode layer have a first pre-tilt angle, and the liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer disposed adjacent to the second electrode layer have a second pre-tilt angle different from the first pre-tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ching-Che Yang, Chen-Kuan Kao
  • Patent number: 9904124
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a gate line disposed on an upper portion of the first substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line, a semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating layer, a data line and a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, a passivation layer which covers the data line and the drain electrode and defines a contact hole which exposes a part of the drain electrode, a common electrode provided at an upper portion of the passivation layer and having a planar structure, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole and including a plurality of pixel branch electrodes, and a second substrate corresponding to the first substrate, where an opening is defined in the common electrode at a position which corresponds to a middle region of the plurality of pixel branch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyoung Ju Shin
  • Patent number: 9897832
    Abstract: To provide an optical element capable of stably securing an intermediate mode between two operations modes. The optical element of the present invention includes: a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate provided by opposing to the first transparent substrate; a plurality of first conductive patterns and second conductive patterns disposed in parallel to each other on a face of the first transparent substrate opposing to the second transparent substrate; light transmission regions disposed between the first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns; a transparent conductive film disposed on a face of the second transparent substrate opposing to the first transparent substrate; and an electrophoretic element disposed between the neighboring light transmission regions, which is constituted with light-shielding electrophoretic particles of a specific electric charge and a transmissive dispersion material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kunihiro Shiota
  • Patent number: 9868400
    Abstract: Provided is an image display mirror that includes a half mirror and an image display apparatus, reduces an influence of a reflected image provided by the half mirror, and is excellent in visibility of an image displayed on the image display apparatus. The image display mirror for a vehicle includes: a first polarizing plate; a first liquid crystal cell; a half mirror; and an image display apparatus in the stated order from a viewer side, in which in the first liquid crystal cell, a state in which a polarization direction of incident linearly polarized light is maintained and a state in which the incident linearly polarized light is transformed into circularly polarized light are switched in accordance with a voltage to be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsunori Takada, Kentarou Takeda, Tadatoshi Nakanishi, Tadayuki Kameyama, Hiroki Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 9857642
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a high-definition and high-brightness display device with a high degree of energy efficiency. The above-described object can be realized by a display device including a display panel having a display surface and a backlight, wherein: the display panel has a wavelength conversion layer for each pixel on a surface parallel to the display surface, and has a light scattering layer between the wavelength conversion layers; the wavelength conversion layers have fluorescent materials; the light scattering layers have fine particles; a reflection layer is provided on the wavelength conversion layers on the backlight side; and a reflection layer is provided on the light scattering layers on the display surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Itou
  • Patent number: 9857603
    Abstract: The present invention provides a 2D/3D switchable display device, comprising a backlight module (2) and a liquid crystal panel (1) located on the backlight module (2); the liquid crystal panel (1) comprises a plurality of element images (11) sequentially aligned, and the backlight module (2) comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements (21) corresponding to the plurality of element images (11), and each light-emitting element (21) comprises a middle region (211) in a middle position and a surrounding region (212) at periphery of the middle region (211), and the middle regions (211) of the plurality of light-emitting elements (21) respectively correspond to the plurality of element images (11), and the middle region (211) and the surrounding region (212) are respectively controlled by different circuits to be lightened or dimmed; as the middle region (211) and the surrounding region (212) are lightened at the same time, the display device shows a 2D display mode, and as the middle region (211) is lightened
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yawei Liu, Qiaosheng Liao
  • Patent number: 9857521
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels that display images for a user. The backlight unit may have a light-guide layer. An array of light-emitting diodes may emit light into an edge of the light-guide layer. The light guide layer may overlap a backlight reflector. The backlight reflector may include a backlight reflector panel formed from a stack of dielectric layers on a rectangular substrate. The backlight reflector may also include a strip of backlight reflector tape having an edge that is overlapped by an edge portion of the backlight reflector panel. Color compensating features such as printed colored ink patterns may be formed on the backlight reflector to adjust the color of backlight illumination in portions of the backlight unit adjacent to the light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chuan Pu, Shin-Ying Lu, Chenhua You, Sheng Min Wang, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin
  • Patent number: 9854629
    Abstract: A display device suitable for increasing in size, a display device where display unevenness is suppressed, or a display device that can display an image on a curved surface is provided. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, a first adhesive layer, and a substrate. The first and second display panels each include a first region, a second region, and a barrier layer. The barrier layer includes a portion overlapping with the first region and a portion overlapping with the second region. The first region includes a region transmitting visible light. The second region can display an image. The barrier layer contains an inorganic insulating material and includes a region in contact with the first adhesive layer and a region with a thickness of 10 nm to 2 ?m. The display device includes a region where the substrate, the first adhesive layer, the first region of the second display panel, and the second region of the first display panel overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Ikeda, Nozomu Sugisawa, Yuichi Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 9823503
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch screen liquid crystal display device (LCD) that includes a first substrate that includes a plurality of pixels defined by crossings of gate lines and data lines, each pixel including a thin film transistor; a second substrate that includes a color filter and a black matrix; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of gap column spacers on the second substrate and contacting the first substrate; a press column spacer on the second substrate and spaced apart from the first substrate; and a third substrate attached to the second substrate, wherein the plurality of gap column spacers have a density of 0.05% to 0.11% with respect to a display region of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Yeob Lee, Dae-Lim Park, Sang-Bum Ko
  • Patent number: 9823509
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light source providing light to the display panel, a bottom chassis, the light source being positioned on the bottom chassis, a diffuser plate between the light source and the display panel, the diffuser plate directing light emitted from the light source toward the display panel, and a supporter between the bottom chassis and the diffuser plate to support the diffuser plate, the supporter including a support portion that is at least partially bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyunghoon Chae, Suyoung Yun, Yongil Kim
  • Patent number: 9823512
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate on which a pixel electrode is formed, a second substrate on which a common electrode is formed and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first plate electrode, a first slit pattern which is a hole formed in the first plate electrode and includes a cross-shaped stem slit and a plurality of branch slits extending in both directions from the stem slit, and a plurality of branch electrodes which protrude from outer side portions of the first plate electrode. The common electrode includes a second plate electrode and a second slit pattern formed in the second plate electrode and including a plurality of holes arranged in a rhombus form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haksun Chang, Cheol Shin, Kaeun Kim, Kichul Shin, Sehyun Lee